Technical Support Specialist

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We are hiring a Technical Support Specialist for a Fulltime Permanent opportunity.

The IS Technology Operations Centre (TOC) team provides 24/7 support and strives to reduce both the impactand duration of outages of ICBC systems through effective alerting and monitoring; timely, clear and concisecommunication, and consistent incident handling.

As a Technical Support Specialist within the TOC team, you will provide support for ICBC’s computing platforms.This includes monitoring system queues; responding to system capacity or performance issues; ensuringsystems, databases, and transactions are available as per Service Level Agreements.

Position Requirements:

Your key deliverables:

• Responding, investigating, troubleshooting, escalating, and/or resolving system alerts.
• Coordination of high-priority incidents, incident logging and escalation.
• Working in conjunction with other ISD teams to provide support, maintenance & task execution forInfrastructure systems and applications (Servers, Citrix, Nutanix, Network, Storage, Desktops, ICBC coreapplications, batch jobs) Stopping/starting queues; restarting services and applying patches, updates and fixes;applying regular security patches; and software enhancements.
• Execution of ad-hoc IT Service requests via the JIRA request system. (server snapshots, Control-M jobhandling, data change)
• Performing daily health checks, ad hoc health checks & production verification testing (PVT)
• IT Service Desk outside of core business hours for our internal customers.
• Experience utilizing privileged access to support servers, troubleshooting system alerts, executing IT servicerequests, and viewing administrative settings.
• Experience with Infrastructure monitoring tools such as Splunk, AKIPS, Nagios, SCOM and ApplicationPerformance Monitoring (APM) tools.
• Knowledge of ITSM best practices such as ITIL, incident, problem and change management, and serviceoperations Management.
• Self-motivated # able to learn new technologies quickly.
• Strong support documentation skills, cross-training & knowledge transfer You will have experience supportingEnterprise systems for mid to large-sized IT Infrastructure systems. Your experience is supported by post-secondary education in a computer-related field, and a passion for getting to the root and resolving technicalproblems.

The hours of operation are twenty-four hours per day, Sunday to Saturday. Employees work a 9-hour work dayand rotate through three shifts:

Day: 7:00 to 16:00

Afternoon: 14:00 to 23:00

Night: 22:30 to 07:30

Employees will generally be scheduled to work the following pattern: four-day shifts followed by three days off,then four night shifts followed by four days off and then four afternoon shifts followed by three days off. Employeeswill receive an 8.5% shift premium. There are opportunities for overtime.

Position Information:

Only candidates legally entitled to work in Canada will be considered for this position.